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Washington D.C. To State or not to State?  

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  1. 1. Should Washington become a state?

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The issue here is that the notion of democracy gets suspended at the banks of the Potomac. Why is it that the 600,000+ people who call the District of Columbia are somehow lesser citizens than the 600,000+ residents of Wyoming and of the other sparsely populated states? DC has no representation in Congress - no Representative and no Senator. Eleanor Holmes Norton does not have a vote, so it doesn't matter what ceremonial duties they grant her because when it comes time to vote, the residents of DC have no say on how their tax dollars are spent, whether their children will be sent into war, whether their air and water will be polluted, etc. Congress maintains an autocratic hold over DC. Congress can overrule anything that the mayor or city council does if they do not agree with it. It is a complete farce. Republicans tend to be against DC statehood because the city is a majority African American city. African Americans have historically voted for Democrats and by granting DC statehood, they would automatically be ceding a House seat and two Senate seats to the Democrats. But, the issue of DC statehood is not a political issue just like global warming is not a political issue - it's about doing what's right for the citizens of our country - all of them, not just the ones who agree with you.
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as for DC, what if they left the federal government owned land to the feds (kind of like how the UN building in NYC is international land) and give the rest to maryland? if the feds need land, they're going to take it, but considering how it's been for years and years, i doubt tht would happen.
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I am not certain that Maryland wants the District. I would say that they don't, except for possibly certain of the wealthy areas of Northwest. Baltimore is already a financial drain on the state of Maryland and I am certain that Maryland would see the District as the same type of financial drain. There has been talk before about separating out the Mall and the Federal buildings downtown and keeping that as the Federal District while allowing the remander of the District become the state of New Columbia, but there has always been strong opposition from Republicans knowing that that would mean a permanent 3 vote block for the Democratic Party. The District does have a vote in the Presidential election. They just don't have a vote in the Congress. Without a heavily Democratic Congress and a Democratic President the state of New Columbia just will not happen. It doesn't matter whether as the license plates say, "Taxation without Representation" or not.
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